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AT&T LTE In 79 New Markets By Summers End | iDownloadBlog

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T-Mobile may be two years late to the LTE party, but it has some ambitious rollout plans for its 4G network. In a press release yesterday, the carrier said it hopes to cover 200 million+ subscribers with LTE by the end of 2013.

But not wanting to give up any ground to the Deutsche Telekom-owned company, AT&T announced today some enterprising rollout plans of its own. The carrier says it will add LTE to 79 new markets by the end of the summer…

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Friday iPhone Update Authorizing T-Mobile’s LTE Network | Gigom

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Last week I wrote a post attempting to answer all of the lingering questions about whether current-generation iPhones would work on T-Mobile’s networks. There was only one answer I couldn’t get out of Apple, and that was when it would send out the iOS update officially activating support for T-Mobile’s brand new 4G network. Well, Apple remains mum, but TMoNews seems to have gotten the answer: April 5.

An internal T-Mobile screenshot leaked to TMoNews states that the iOS update will not only authorize the T-Mobile network (T-Mo’s 2G and a portion of its HSPA+ networks are already supported), but will enable Apple’s visual voicemail and MMS features on the carrier as well. Here’s the text of document:

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How Apple Could Screw the U.S. Wireless Industry | Gigom

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All signs point to Apple unveiling its 3rd generation iPad on Wednesday, and while millions of consumers will follow Apple’s San Francisco event in anticipation, operators around the world will watch with trepidation. New reports emerge daily that the iPad 3 will be the first iOS device with LTE connectivity, but Apple hasn’t given any official confirmation. There’s a lot riding on that spec sheet. If the new iPad — and more importantly the next iPhone – doesn’t support LTE, then Apple will have struck huge blow to the wireless industry and impeded mobile broadband’s progress.

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iMore Confirmation: iPad 3 Will “Definitely” Have LTE 4G [Rumor] | Cult of Mac

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iMore, the same site that correctly predicted the date of Apple’s iPad event on March 7th, has now said that the iPad 3 will “definitely” have LTE 4G. The Wall Street Journal previously predicted this feature with no indication of whether the speed improvements will make their way to the iPhone 5.

There’s also been no indication of whether 4G speeds on the iPad will be available outside of the United States.

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Analyst: LTE Would Make Next iPhone As Bulky And Inefficient As An Android Phone | Cult of Mac

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There are a lot of reasons why it’s unlikely that the next iPhone won’t boast true LTE speeds. For one thing, the national coverage for LTE is virtually non-existent. For another, first-gen LTE chipsets are by Apple’s own estimation far too juice hungry to go into the iPhone.

If you needed any more cold water dashed on your hopes of an iPhone 4G in September, though, consider iSuppli’s latest report. They say that an LTE chip in the iPhone would make it the bulkiest and most expensive iPhone yet.

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LTE Costs and Extra Chipset May Keep Apple Away This year | 9to5Mac

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In a note last night, Wayne Lam of IHS-iSuppli made the case against Apple going with 1st generation LTE chips in its next iPhone.

I think Apple is more concerned with the extra space the new chips would take up much more than the extra cost of the components.“The first generation of LTE chipsets forced a lot of design compromises with the handset, and some of those we are just not willing to make,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple chief operating officer, speaking at the company’s April 2011 earnings call.

The next round of chips which would allow Apple to put LTE in a similarly sized package won’t hit the streets until the first half of 2012.

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Rumor: Apple’s Lion To Launch On Wed. July 6th | T-Gaap

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“We’ve just received word from our source in the San Francisco Bay Area that Apple is planning to release Mac OS X 10.7 Lion on Wednesday, July 6th at 9:00 am Pacific Time.”

“One particular item of interest about this news is that with OS X Lion being an online-release-only, Apple can wait until the 11th hour to release new OS. They don’t have to first lock it down, then press it onto DVDs, then box it, then ship to their hundreds of stores and through distribution in order to meet a certain publicly announced launch date. With an online release, Apple just needs to upload the final release to their servers and then make it available.”

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Is This What The iPhone 5 Will Look Like? | Cult of Mac

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The folks over at Yanko Design put together these extremely attractive mock-ups of what they imagine the next iPhone might look like when it’s released in September.

I love the way this looks, but I say there’s no chance of the iPhone released in September will look like this. For one thing, all the rumors currently swirling about indicate that the next iPhone will look largely identical to the iPhone 4, except for the possibility of a slightly larger display.

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How Apple’s Revolutionary iPhone Changed Everything | MacDailyNews

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“Apple’s iPhone debuted four years ago, and we sometimes take for granted how much has changed since then,” Ryan Kim reports for GigaOM.

“The phone altered the smartphone landscape and ushered in the modern era of intelligent, connected devices,” Kim reports. “It shook up the industry and forced changes and upheaval among many competitors.”

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Kim reports, “Here’s a look at some stats on how things have changed over that period, both for Apple and for other companies operating in the same space.”

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Does Leak Show AT&T Speed and Pricing for LTE? | TiPb

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“LulzSec dumped one last load of AT&T documents on the internet, which though outdated and never meant for public consumption, does give some insight into some of the things they were at least considering — like speed and session-based pricing for their upcoming LTE network.” “But one interesting tidbit is AT&T’s apparent plan to market LTE data with various speed tiers, which it’s calling “Speed Based Pricing.” Verizon’s about to switch to tiered pricing for its data plans (3G and 4G), but that’s based on total consumption, not speed. The basic idea would be pay more, and you get faster … Continue reading Does Leak Show AT&T Speed and Pricing for LTE? | TiPb